Google Lets Businesses Opt Out Of Online Orders
Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that there is a new Google My Business form to opt out of online orders on Google. I cannot tell you how many times Google shows me an option to order online for restaurants and I go through the process an…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Sept…
Google Search Console Breadcrumb Report Had Errors
A week or so ago, Google launched a new Search Console enhancement report for breadcrumb markup. Well, that report already had a bug with it. Google posted in the data anomalies page “Google fixed an error in Breadcrumb validation (the last crumb in t…
Review Rich Results Keep Getting Removed From Google’s Search Results
About ten days ago, Google announced new rules around which search results will get reviews (stars) in their search results snippets. We saw a steep decline reviews rich results showing in the Google search results a couple days after the announcemen…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Sept. 19 Core Update, Fresher Search Console Data, More Snippet Control & More
It was a busy week in search, I hope you like the small tweaks I am making to these news recap videos, if you do, subscribe, smash that like button and hit that bell. :) First up, Google release another Google core update…
Redesigned Google Call Only Ads Layout
Google has redesigned the layout for the Google call only ads. Now your business name and headline will show directly below your phone number, along with a larger phone icon. Google said this is “to make it more clear to users what you offer and make …
Google 21st Birthday On September 27th – Here Is The Doodle
Tomorrow is Google’s 21st birthday and Google has already released its very own birthday Doodle to celebrate. The Doodle depicts a desktop computer from 1998 and the old Google home page and old Google logo. There is some confusion as to when Google c…
Google September 2019 Core Update Impact Now Being Noticed
It took some time, but now the SEO community is noticing the impact of the Google September 2019 core update. Yesterday morning most weren’t seeing any significant impact but later on in that day, people began noticing the search results shaking up. …
Google: Embedded & Hotlinked Images Do Not Count As Links
Google’s John Mueller said that if someone takes your image and embeds it on their site using your image URL as the source, also known as hotlinking images, that image would not be considered a link to your web site.
Google My Business Verification Status Checker
Via Tim Capper, you can now check to see if your business is verified with Google My Business. To do so, go to this URL, make sure your email is associated with the Google My Business and go through the steps.
Google: The Crawl Rate Setting Takes A Day To Kick In
In 2008 Google added a feature to Google Webmaster Tools (as it was known back then, now known as Google Search Console) to let you set your crawl rate. Google does this automatically based on what your server can handle but you can override it. If yo…
Google Knowledge Panels With Translation Feature
Google’s John Mueller hinted a couple years ago that Google may decide to translate knowledge panels and/or featured snippets in other languages when applicable. I have not seen this happen until today when Gianluca Fiorelli shared this happening to h…
Google: Emailing Google For SEO Support Never Works
Gary Illyes from Google said last night on Twitter that emailing Google for support with your SEO and your ranking problems in Google never really works. He said “That’s impossible” when someone claimed that emailing Google did help his ranking issues…
Google: Only Thing That Changes With Server Migrations Is GoogleBot’s Crawl Rate
John Mueller from Google released another #AskGoogleWebmasters video where he said the only real thing that changes, temporarily, when you move a site from one server to another server, is how fast GoogleBot crawls that content. Google will throttle b…
Google Delivers On Webmasters Request To Control Search Result Snippets
I am not sure if you remember, but back in May Danny Sullivan shared screen shots from a Google Ranking Fair where he shared SEO and webmaster concerns. One of those concerns was “Webmasters want more control over sitelinks, titles, snippets, mixing im…
Vlog #17: Wil Reynolds On Google Stealing Clicks Through Google Ads & More
Wil Reynolds (@wilreynolds) the founder of Seer Interactive started doing SEO 20 years ago…
Google September 2019 Core Update Is Live But Seems Slow To Roll Out
Google began rolling out the September 2019 Core Update yesterday at around 2pm ET. I’ve been tracking the SEO industry chatter since and so far the chatter seems somewhat limited. There are some noticing big changes but for the most part, it seems li…
Blogger Having Google Indexing Issues?
There are numerous reports that those using Blogger, Google’s blog platform, are having issues with getting their content into the Google Index.
Reminder: Google Ads Sunsetting Average Position September 30th
This is just a reminder that Google Ads will be sunsetting the average position metric this coming Monday, September 30, 2019. Google told us about it in February and now we are a week away from this metric going away.
Evergreen GoogleBot Now On Chrome 77
GoogleBot is now running Chrome 77, yes, the evergreen GoogleBot is staying evergreen with the latest stable release of Chrome.